What was the main reason most people moved west between 1870 and 1900?
A) to seek freedom from religious persecution
B) to escape the drab routine of factory life
C) to escape the diseased conditions of crowded eastern cities
D) to improve their economic situation
E) to escape from invading Native American groups
Answer: D
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Like Woodrow Wilson before him, President Roosevelt asked the American people to be neutral in thought when war erupted in Europe in 1939.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following caused resentment among white working-class men during the recession of the 1970s?
A. Affirmative action programs that reduced the number of white men hired and increased the number of minorities and women hired B. Federal funding of job-training programs for African Americans but not for whites C. Attempts within major industries to equalize the wages of males and females by giving female employees substantially higher raises than male employees D. The dramatic decline in African American unemployment and the corresponding increase in white unemployment
According to archaeologists, approximately when did the first humans arrive in America?
A) ?75,000 BCE B) ?41,000 BCE C) ?12,500 BCE D) ?60,000 BCE E) ?2,500 BCE
Which of the following BEST describes what radicals sought to accomplish?
a. to execute all slow-thinking people b. to reverse democracy and secular influence c. to limit individual power while expanding that of the state d. to reconstruct society economically and politically from the ground up e. to reconstruct the great ancient empires of Europe